What classes should be Blacksmiths?

Marauders (Warriors) and Gladiators (Paladins) have the most to gain from Blacksmithing. However, from the list above, you can see the wide variety of crafting and gathering arms they can craft. Being a high-level blacksmith indirectly helps leveling up your other crafting classes, since almost all crafting and gathering arms come from them. In a sense, blacksmithing supports other crafting classes.

Again, every crafting class benefits / relies on other crafting classes for components, so it’s never truly useless to train Blacksmithing (or all crafting classes)

Blacksmith skills

Every Crafting (Disciple of Hand) class has 14 skills, 11 of which are common among all of them, while three are unique to each class. Below are the Blacksmithing only skills.

Lowers recipe level to three below current level for the next three steps.

Blacksmithing Skills Discussion

Ingenuity: Only good for attempting any craft above your current level. This “reduces” the “amount” of progress you need for completion and HQ. Can save you some CP…

Brand of Fire: Like any ‘brand’ skill, this is almost always better than any generic synthesis skill. As a cross-class skill, this of course depends on the element of the item you’re crafting. Use it if you the item you’re crafting is Fire element. (Determined by shard used?)

Ingenuity II: Technically useful for ANY craft, but really shines with end-game level crafts. This becomes a must have (Even worth it for level 50 crafts!) The low CP price is worth it if you save 2-3 steps worth of synthesis.

Overall, Ingenuity I and II are worth getting for the long haul. By experience, crafting anything above your level (Or level 70 crafts) are noticeably more difficult. You’ll never be sad to have one of them as a cross-class skill. Brand of Fire, like any brand, is great to have.

For now, I guess that’s it! We will be working on class specific levelling guides, and other advanced information like most common materials used and so on. Please subscribe if you don’t want to miss out!